CO129-225 - Acting Governor Marsh - 1886 [1-3] — Page 55

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

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Hongkong. Singapore, and)

other countries beyond their

native land)

The

money.

collected

was employed in purchasing,

rice, which was distributed)

any of the hiva.

the distressed) districle.

be very

Morrice

by

relief panties under the control)

of repreventatives of the Ting Was Stropital. The total

ded wa

expended

leaming.

C

about $70,000

balance in hand of

above) $30,

$30,000.

2. Soon after the relief parties of

the hospitel had ended their labour,

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reached and that

Communication had

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received from certani chinese) officials in (zutose by the Storpilat Committee, ordering them to

remit the unexpended) balance) of the Ting the Relief Fund, so that it might be

ployed in

paying.

A

with travelation

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paying for the cost of repairing the embankments. in which the floods had made breaches. Jatavce)

requested the Chairinen and Ka-Chairman to come to

office,

Ikat

to my

and asked them if there's

aup

they

truth.

in the

had been ordered to reach

the balances of their funds to the

femeie

Govern

They -- replied

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cut at Canton,

in the afferivatives, and,

my having expressed as with

to see the cor

cation),

produced the document ranked his

I then pondled out to the that

they were the

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latives of

represente Institution established by,

British law, and situated in a British CoCompi

that the Chuiese

Government has no

them so long as hop

they

control over

were preidents

and that thep ought not

Amyking; and

to receive official

Comm.

nications

from

b.

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